Jonathan Hopkins

Programmer and game developer. Working on Frostbite engine @EA (views my own).

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

I think I'm done with this app. It's clear that Twitter is on the tail end of its enshittification.
https://t.co/rfabYk4cBr

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@artbytal Love the colours!

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

Epic Games is working developing a new functional programming language, called Verse.
https://t.co/9kC1SPYqLf

[Avid Halaby @AvidHalaby]

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@_AbandonedSheep Can you pet the human in Schrodinger's Cat Burglar?

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@GreyAlien NT folk?
I've been struggling with motivation for my own projects for a long time. I work in software full time and occasionally in my own time on a few different projects but it's hard to actually and sit down and make any kind of playable game.

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@rtingsdotcom I don't have 6/6 vision but I can see the error in this article. 😂🤦‍♂️

[dinosaur @dinosaurcouch]

big bed

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

Watching the updates from Skate makes me proud to be working on Frostbite. They're working on some cool stuff that I hope a lot of people are going to enjoy.
https://t.co/jVK3rPWMIY

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

I think it's time for me to find a Twitter alternative. Any suggestions? where are the game devs, programmers and artists heading to?

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.

🧵

[Alex J. Champandard 🌱 @alexjc]

Reading through the GitHub CoPilot litigation submitted; although it was pulled off quickly — it's a solid piece of work!

My assessment is that the defendants, GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI are in a very bad position...
https://t.co/wNGCVqcjdM

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

Hope you all enjoyed games week! Great to see some fresh faces, attend great talks and catch-up with friends.
#AGDAs22 #GCAP22

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

#NewProfilePic

[Fabian Fischer @Ludokultur]

Some have called 2022 the year of "microgames". In the wake of @poncle_vampire a host of ~$2 games were created mostly by solo developers or tiny #IndieDev teams in the span of a few months.
Let's talk game dev experimentalism!
🧵👇 1/9

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

TikTok pinky promises not to do any keylogging.

[Felix Krause @KrauseFx]

Wow, what an honour to have my work featured on @forbes

Including statements by TikTok confirming the code I found exists and does what I expected.

https://t.co/1p8hOwQBWN via @richardjnieva

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@larsiusprime And I don't just mean in aggregate as a society, even individually our desires conflict. The desire for the familiar (nostalgia) is contrary to the novel.

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

@larsiusprime I don't really understand your point. The ai generating naughty images, is well aligned for the person running the ai. It's a societal issue whether that's acceptable and how you can use such an ai. The problem with ai alignment imo is that humans want conflicting things.

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

I want short, tight games. 20 hours isn't even short imo. Games are still hard and costly to produce, so cost/benefit shouldn't be so strictly tied to time spent playing.

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

"dollar per hour" never made sense to me. Do you want to pay more for movie tickets if the movie is over 3 hours? Or pay for books based on the number of pages?

[dietzribi @dietzribi]

taken from the first review on the page for cult of the lamb
WHAT THE FUCK

[Jonathan Hopkins @deltadreamgames]

I don't know what the rest of that person's review was, but how long were they expecting it to be before they started? It doesn't surprise me to find out Cult is ~20 hours long.